I had been wanting to put a Y block back in my 55 Sunliner but had a rough 65 Galaxie possibly with a rebuild 390 dropped in my lap,if I put it in the 55 I want to make it look like a early FE so I will have to use a early 4 bbl intake with a oil fill tube along with the early valve covers but was there a PCV system that could be used with those parts or would I be stuck with a road draft tube.
Couldn't have the hardware show on my Mysterion clone so I put the PVC valve under the manifold in a drilled and tapped hole in an intake runner. I have the splash pan that is often missing so should not suck oil. Not a good plan for a daily driver but should work fine for a show car that will have lifetime run time measured in minutes.
Kind of similar to the early small blocks and I presume it also came out about the same time 62 or 63.
You could drill the rear of the intake and drop the PCV basket in it but an early FE factory intake has the PVC system as shown by @egads ... so doing the basket may be mute. On my Lonesome Texan project.I have a 60 HiPo intake with the basket..... while the factory cast iron intake had the system as shown in the factory illustration. You could also tap a PCV unit into the oil filler tube. as mid 60's corvettes did... clean, trick and hidden ...... I absolutely hate the PCV on the top of a valve cover.
I am going to do some looking at the local old junkyard and see what I can find,not looking forward to dealing with that heavy intake manifold.
Unfortunately, it's also where it works the best along with the oil fill. The early-type PCV such as shown fails to evacuate condensation out of the motor as good as it should, specifically in the valve covers. This promotes sludge formation and can leave you with rusted components. There's a lot of factors that affect this; driving habits, where/how the car is stored, and local air humidity conditions so not everyone will have these issues. The cross-flow design of the valve cover oil fill/PCV eliminates any 'dead spots' to reduce this to a minimum. The small block started out with the early design, but Ford changed it to the valve cover design in '64 when it was obvious they had a sludge problem. The FE followed in '65 except for the aluminum-intake Hipo motors. Those kept the early style until '67, the aluminum intakes disappeared on production cars in '68. I suspect that had more to do with the expense of re-tooling the low-volume aluminum intakes than any love for the early-style PCV system. It's also critical that the factory baffles are in place. The lifter valley baffle should be there for either system, the early cast iron intakes should also have a secondary baffle attached to the intake near the outlet. If either one is missing, they can suck a lot of oil out at the right RPM.
So would a road draft tube be better then the early PCV system,I could try it and if there are issues then put it back in the valve cover but like the look of the early valve covers better.
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